Eric Weinstein’s apt Tweet:
Or, instead of off-script and on-script, should we refer to people as “Thinks for Themselves” and “Doesn’t Think for Themselves”? Labels of Left/Right are (often intentionally) deceptive, obscuring massive internal dissent within the “two” tribes for purposes of feigning homogeneity. Tribes use these labels to fluff up their feathers to try to appear coherent, like politically powerful voting blocks.
The labels “Left” and “Right” look precise, but simplistically clean appearance of these labels disguises a lack of precision. Primarily, these labels refer to heterogenous tribes that try to portray themselves as homogenous. This is not merely academic. The use of the Left/Right labels (legitimized and amplified by lazy media and social media) is tearing our society apart.